Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-09-03
The General Sessions and the Meetinxp
Of she Eighteen Sections,

The General Sessions and the Meeting,
| Of the Eighteen Sections.
The business OF the Ninth International Medical
Congress has OF course, been well laid out before
hand, otherwise IT is doubtful whether with *
large a body, any business at all could be trans
acted. The program makes printed book OF Ion
pages. It would be shorter II 1t were not for the
necessity OF printing the rules, announcements
and titles OF papers in three languages, English
French, and German, the official languages OF the
congress The general program OF the congress Il
as follows:
Monday, September general meeting at Al
baugh's Theater, 18th street, at IL a. M Fore
noon-organization Of the congress; report Of Che
| secretary-general; report Of the chairman of the
local committee Of arrangements; address OF vel.
come by the Hon ThOs. +. Bayard, secretary OF
State; other addresses: address of the president
| OF the congress; adjournment Afternoon-Sec-
tons will meet at p. m. Evening-Conversa-
zione at o. s. Pension Hall, to IL pm.
5Sep sa,n r Slq general 1o ad
| on Fever, its Causes, Mechanism, and Rational
| Treatment; 9. DR.. Mariana Semmola, OF Naples
Italy; Bacteriology and Its Therapeutical kela-
Program for all sections-Morning session, IL
an, adjourn at pm; afternoon session, 3 to
g.m.; evening" Vlslt 10 the Corcoran Art Gallery,
Wednesday, September TO a. m-General
addresses By Or. P. 9: gnna- Of Hamburg, Ger;
Medicine; 2 DIR. G. Fielding Blandford, OF London,
the Treatment OF Recent Cases OF Insanity in
the same hours as on Tuesday. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
oy the citizens OF Washington, from to II p 10.
THURSDAY, September S-General meeting at 10
a. m.|Generai addresses L DR.. A. Luteaud, OF
Paris, France, On the Influence OF American Sur
geons ON the Development of Gyn8cology in
Europe; q DIR. Neaud0rfer, OF Vienna on the Mill
tary Medicine OF the Present and that Of the Near
| Future. sections will meet at the same hours as
on Mednesday. Evenlng-General reception and
D4n0upf q Dor .an IN
Friday. September 9-General meeting at 10 am.
lransdcIion or the general business OF the Con-
gresS Sectlons-MOrning session at IL q. m.
afternoon session at p. In.
Saturday-September1 O-General meeting at 10
a. H., anu adjournment. Visit to Mt. Vernon.
saturday evening the foreign delegates Will start
on special trains on an excursion TO Watkins Glen
and Niagara Falls
! RULES OF THE CONGRESS-
Ihe rules prescribed for the congress state that
1.-THE congress shall consist OF members of the reg
ular profession OF medicine, who shall have in
scribed their names In the register and shall have
taken out their tickets or admission, and OF such
other scientific men as the executive committee OF
tne congress may see fit to admit" The congress
VIII be divided into eighteen sections, follows:
6eneTai medicine, general surgery, military and
naVai surgery, obstetrics, gynHcOOgy, therapeu-
tics and materia medica, anatomy, physiology,
pathology, diseases OF children, opnthalnOiOgy
Oloiogy. laryngoogy, dermatology and syphilOg-
raphy, pu0llc and international hygiene, clima-
toiogy and demography. psychological medicine
ana diseases OF the nervous system, dental and
oral surgery. The general meetings OF the con-
gress shall be for the trans ,ction OF business ana
LOT addresses and communications OF general
scientific interest In the meetings OF the sections
20 speak for more than ten minutes, with
Inc exception or the readers OF papers and
those slSS who Introduce subjects for discussion
The general business OF the congress is arranged
ana administered by an executive committee
composed OF the president OF the congress- the
secretary general, the treasurer, the chairman OF
the finance committee, the chairman OF the COM
inittee OF arrangements, and the presidents of
sections Inc committee has power to add 10 its
membership, but the total number OF members
sLall not exceed thirty. Each section he's presi-
dent v1ce-preS1dent, secretaries and council.
The programs arranged for the sections are elabo-
rate. IL Is not expected that all the papers an
nounced can be read In Iull and discussed. Some
OF them Will be read by title and Will he printed
In the transactions or the consreS,, which will
constitute yoiuininouS addition to the medical
literature Oh the day, expressing as 1t Will In
many instances the iates: and most advanced
thought upon questions relating TO the science of
medicine.
sEC7IoN I-GENERAL MEDICINE
The section Oh general medicine will hold its
first meeting In the Congregational Church, G
street. corner Of 10th, Monday, at 3 D. M The
opening address bg DIR. A. B. Arnold Of Baltimore
tne president OF the section. WILL o; entitled, "An
be read at the meeting or this section ty Drs.
johns Lindsay Stevens, OF Glasgow, Scotia nj; E.
Gutter. OF New YORK; W. u. WLitiairsn. CT h..g-
n.
i2n1, vi Louisville; Joseph koros Oh Bud.,-Pest1,
Hungary; Christian kauua.ee, OF Freiners, Ger
Singleton Smith, Bristol, England; Water r
Gei&e. Ontario, Can. e. v. Perez, Canary Islands;
Alfred S: Gubb. LONDON, England; I. ID. CrotaerS
Z. &. Spitzka, New York; w. .. Daniel, Billiard,
Ga; Geo. E. rtubbs, Philadelphia. The titles in.
dictate that most OF the papers will be technical In
character. Among those likely to have popular
interest are those by DR.. Whitmarsh on "Vae. ua-
ton and Pasteur's Treatment" by DR.. Octerlony
Korosi On preventive Power OF vaccinaticn." by
Or. CrOtherS on Disease OF Inebrtety and its
Treatment, and oy Dr. Madison on Cocaine In
eoriety, ITS Cause. consequence and Cure"
SECTION u-GENERAL SURGERY
The section an general surgery Dr. W. T
Briggs, OF Nashville president will hold its first
meeting also In the Congregational church at 3
O'Clock Monday. The papers announced to be read
at the meetings OF this section are by DIS VIM
MacEwen, OF Glasgow; A. c. LamOthe Ramsey, OF
ST. Cloud, Mimi; Jno. Romans, Boston: Chas T.
Parker, Chicago; Nicholas Sem. Milwaukee; H.
P. cambridge, Cincinnati; j. NJ. Matthews, Louis
vile; Felix Debaker, Roubaux, France: Donald
Maclain. Detroit; DIR. Pe,tn Paris; SamI Benton
Lonton; Arthur rerherne Norton, London; Fred
yer; Edmund Owen, London; NJ. Ollier, Lyons,
France; Milton J. Roberts, New York: Edmund
swsx Gacpg9 0ear J. ,o Goskery BA5lmore
Allen staples, Dubuque. Iowa; F. C.. SchaefYer
Chicago; DR.. Assaky, Bucharest, Roumanla; A.
h. Wilson, Boston; Root. Newman, New YORK: s.
Haddad, Alexandra, Egypt; Jno. Cneyne, Edin-
burgh; W. burnett spanton, London: Fred. r.
JesSet, London; A. Pearce Gould, London; Reginald
Harrison, London; d.. Terrier, Paris: and K Nor
riS Woiferiien. London; j. Ward Cousins Ports
Beirut, Syria; Ernesto IrcOmi, Italy; Domingo de
NOnt0run, Trinidad w. l.; ID. RedarO, Paris: Il.
Nj. Wilkinson, Baltimore.
SECTION u-MILITARY AND NAVAL SURGERY AND
MEDICINE.
This section will hold its first meeting on Mon.
day at o'clock In the hall OF the National Rifles
armory. The opening address by the president of
the section, Or. Henry Hollingsworth Smith Of
Philadelphia, will have for its subject "Ihe H.
nuence OF the Geographical and Social PecuI,ari-
Ties OF the United States upon Its Military Service
nounced for Monday by Drs. Francis p Staples
surgeon In Her Majesty's army: Morse X. Taylor,
u :. A.; Joseph K Smith, u. s. A.: Jna A. Mac
donald ln5pectOrgeneral OF hospitals and fleets in
her MaJesiys army (retlred); Valery Hazard, u S.
A.; jeffrey A. Mar5ton, OF the British war Office:
Alfred c. Girard, U. s. A.; JnO U. Skinner IT, s.
Robert Keyburn Washington; Chas H. Voorhees,
formerly surgeon u. $. Volunteers. For the
meeting Jueoday morning papers are an
n0unced oy Drs Jeffrey A. Marston, OF
London; Jno. Anderson, brigade surgeon London:
DR.. Neudorfer, Austrian army; S. H. Stout. CISCO
Texas; Sir Thos. LongmOre, England; Prof. Won
Esmarch, kiel, Germany; NJ. W. c. GOri Amsler-
dam; VIM Harris Lloyd, British rmy; b. A Wat
son. formerly surgeon u. s. volunteers; Frederick
Z. Ainswortn u ;. A.: Ell A. Wood, Pittsburg;
Daniel ) Lamb, U. 5. A. The papers announced
for Wednesdays meeting are by Drs. Frederick
HYDE, syracuse, y. Y; Geo. L. Porter, BRIDGEPORT
conn; VIM. :. Tremaine. 4. =. A.; Francis r.
Staples, British army; 5. Il. Armstrong, T. s. Ma
rine Hospital Service; Henry James, WATERBURY
Moore, Richmond; Jos. ID. Bryant surgeon gen
eral New York National Guard; WIN. Varlan for